Claire Frisby talks about her 25 years in dental nursing and how her private work compared to that in the NHS. Please tell us about yourself and your journey into dentistry I never knew what I wanted to do for a living, I just knew I didn’t want to sit at a desk all day typing. I wanted something practical to do. After trying several jobs (that I didn’t last in) someone I knew found an advert for a ‘dental nurse’ to start straight away. I went for the interview and got the job and started the next day. All